A Chuck-E-Cheese Birthday Party

Jack celebrated his birthday with his cousins and family today at Chuck-E-Cheese. It seemed easy to do with very little preparation and planning so we booked the party a few weeks ago. Jack was very excited! On the way there tonight, we realized he has never been to Chuck-E-Cheese, but it was funny how excited he was about it. The party went very well. There was plenty of pizza, tokens and cake. Grandmom made his cake as usual and he had a hard time picking out a character so he went with his old stand-by, of his Bella bear. Grandmom also made Bella's brother and a snowman and they turned out so cute. A few of the other birthday parties commented on how nice his cake was!

Jack loved to carry around his tokens and he played skeet-ball a few times, and rode the mini-carousal and the car ride that took a picture of him during the ride. He must have rode the picture ride at least ten times because I have that many pictures of him. He would get in the car, put the token in and smile at the camera t he entire ride. His mouth would get tired and his smile would start to forced, but it was so cute.

After playing for a while, we ate pizza and Chuck-E-Cheese came to our table. The girls were afraid of him, especially Elizabeth, but Jack stood on his chair and we shouted a few "Happy Birthdays!" to him. They sang and clapped, hugged and danced. He got a birthday crown and after closing his eyes for a surprise, they gave him a medal. He was so full of smiles, he loved every minute of it. It just made us feel so good that he had such a nice party. He also go to go in the ticket tunnel. He was nervous, so Claire went in with him. He collected 288 tickets in the tunnel! After presents and cake, the kids went back to playing again. John won quite a few ticket at the Pop-a-shot so Jack had a little over 600 tickets at the end of the night. He picked out a slinky, coin collector, ruler, soft soccer ball and two twisty straws. And he left with his Chuck-E-cheese balloon. What a good day for this little boy!

This face says it all

John with his pop-a-shot

Elizabeth liked to put the coins in and push the button

Grandmom's cake

Bella (no nose)

Bella's Brother (nose)

Clapping to get Chuck-E-Cheese to come out

Singing to Jack

He lifted the candles out one by one to blow them out

Jack's eyes are closed and he is waiting for medal

He loved his medal

Not sure what Kevin was doing in this picture?

Into the ticket tunnel

Emily won a ton of tickets!